Regulation

Highclere Financial Services senior partner Alan Lakey and adviser community website Panacea Adviser have teamed up to launch a helpline for advisers tackling Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) related issues.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reminding advisory businesses to beware "self-defeating transactions" when totting up the total charges clients are being asked to pay.

Almost half of advisers (47%) do not think consumer confidence in financial services has risen since the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Cofunds research.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said firms must do more to ensure advertisements do not mislead consumers after it found 227 cases of non-compliant promotions in the consumer credit sector.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned of a fraudster contacting consumers pretending to be an authorised IFA.

Legal & General (L&G), the country's biggest pension fund manager, has confirmed the end of its Association of British Insurers (ABI) membership.

Investors should respond to the looming rise in interest rates with "equanimity" and carry on as usual, international investment strategist at advice firm deVere Group, Tom Elliott, has suggested.

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Former director of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Maggie Craig has been appointed as the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) interim head of savings, investments and distribution.